January 20, 2016

Just What I Love...

Just what I love... Flowers!

I think the ribbon drove this card design. The first thing I did for yesterday's Color Challenge at Splitcoaststampers was to dye some white seam binding with Melon Mambo with a touch of Pumpkin Pie ink. I've done this a few different ways . This time I "smooshed" the inkpads onto my largest acrylic block(#118483), spritzed it with some water (#126185) picked up all the wet ink with a strip of seam binding. Rubber gloves come in handy too. If the ribbon is really wet I dab it off with a tissue and then hang it to dry. The wrinkles end up being part of the charm. I suppose if the ribbon got wet the color would run - but if my card gets wet that's probably the end of the card too!

The challenge also included Pretty in Pink plus a choice of green. Definitely flower colors!

I "sloppy stamped" the images from What I Love, (#141276) in Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie and Wild Wasabi. The lighter shades of Melon Mambo are a lot like Pretty in Pink so I didn't bother going to get my Pretty in Pink pad. I trimmed my stamping down to my favorite part, tied the dried ribbon around it and mounted it to the top of my card with Stampin' Dimensionals (#104430) and added one of the sweet little messages from the same stamp set. I think this layout makes those little messages work really well.

The stamp set What I Love is one of the Sale-A-Bration sets that is free with a $50 purchase through March 31, 2016. Click on the shop link above if you would like to place an order through me.

Disclaimer

The content in this blog is the sole responsibility of Chris Smith as an independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator and the use of and content of classes, services, or products offered is not endorsed by Stampin' Up! Images copyright Stampin' Up!